Formation of electron radiation belts at Saturn by Z-mode wave acceleration
Nature Communications, 2018 Radial diffusion is the only mechanism considered to accelerate trapped electrons to relativistic energies in Saturn’s magnetic field, forming radiation belts.
E. E. Woodfield +5 more
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A Past Episode of Rapid Tidal Evolution of Enceladus? [PDF]
, 2023 Matija Ćuk, Maryame El Moutamid
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Analysis of Enceladus’s Time-variable Space Environment to Magnetically Sound its Interior
The Planetary Science JournalWe provide a comprehensive study of Enceladus’s time-variable magnetic field environment and identify in measurements of the Cassini spacecraft signatures that appear to be consistent with induced fields from the moon’s interior.
Joachim Saur +3 more
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Low Energy Subsurface Environments as Extraterrestrial Analogs
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Earth’s subsurface is often isolated from phototrophic energy sources and characterized by chemotrophic modes of life. These environments are often oligotrophic and limited in electron donors or electron acceptors, and include continental crust ...
Rose M. Jones +2 more
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Curtain-based Maps of Eruptive Activity in Enceladus’s South-polar Terrain at 15 Cassini Epochs
The Planetary Science JournalWe map surface eruptive activity in Cassini images of Enceladus’s south-polar terrain (SPT) at 15 epochs spanning late 2009 to late 2015 using a refined curtain approach derived from that of J. N. Spitale et al. (S2015).
Joseph N. Spitale +5 more
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Cryoclastic origin of particles on the surface of Enceladus [PDF]
, 2011 W. Degruyter, Michael Manga
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Microwaving Saturn's airless icy moons Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Iapetus and Phoebe
, 2022 Alice Le Gall +4 more
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Exploring the Interior Structure and Mode of Tidal Heating in Enceladus
The Planetary Science JournalEnceladus is among the most intriguing bodies in the solar system due to its astrobiological potential. Determining the extent and duration of habitability (i.e., sustained habitability ) requires characterizing the interior properties and the level and ...
Amirhossein Bagheri +6 more
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Orbital evolution of Saturn’s mid-sized moons and the tidal heating of Enceladus [PDF]
, 2018 Ayano Nakajima +3 more
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Impacts on Ocean Worlds Are Sufficiently Frequent and Energetic to Be of Astrobiological Importance
The Planetary Science JournalEvidence for the beneficial role of impacts in the creation of urable or habitable environments on Earth prompts the question of whether meteorite impacts could play a similar role at other potentially urable/habitable worlds like Enceladus, Europa, and ...
Shannon M. MacKenzie +14 more
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